Robber

A robber is a person who steals or takes something belonging to someone else without their consent. Robbers use force or threats to take what they want from others. A bank robber is someone who steals money from a bank. When the robber takes something, that is called a robbery. One of the most famous robbery during our day's was the Great Train Robbery which occurred in England, it was an armed robbery. Armed robbery means that the robber use a weapon such as a gun in the robbery. Many robbers have become infamous, such as Jesse James who was famous in America and Ben Hall from Australia. Australian robbers used to be called bushrangers.

The word "rob" comes from a Latin word, deraubare. This word came from a German word raub which means clothes. Before clothes were made in factories and became cheap, robbers often took a person's clothes.

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